2.8B still excluded from digital ID as new gender gaps emerge: World Bank
An estimated 2.8 billion people worldwide remain shut out from government-recognized digital ID systems, creating what the World Bank describes as…
Identification for Development (ID4D)
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South Sudan must fortify legal framework to close huge national ID gap: ID4D
South Sudan has been urged to take some urgent steps including adjustments to its national identity legal framework in order…
World Bank backs digital wallets as foundation for user-centric digital identity
A policy note published by the World Bank within the framework of the Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative has argued…
New World Bank data shows 800M people worldwide still lack legal identity
An estimated 800 million people around the world still lack official proof of identity with many of them children whose…
New Digital Public Infrastructure program from World Bank aims for inclusivity
The World Bank has released its annual report on the Identification for Development (ID4D) Initiative, marking ten years of the…
Major financial inclusion progress made since 2011, World Bank says
Great progress has been made in financial inclusion since 2011, when only half of adults worldwide had a bank or…
Zambia says using multiple strategies to meet 50 percent birth registration goal by 2026
Zambia is currently at a point of transition where it is moving from extremely limited birth registration to universal registration…
Somalia walking a thorny road to an inclusive national digital ID system
Flashback about 30 years ago, Somalia had no functional national ID system. Legal identity in this Horn of Africa nation…
IOM releases Digital Identity Toolkit for policymakers, practitioners
The International Organization for Migration has released the IOM Digital Identity Toolkit so that decision-makers and policymakers have a better…
World Bank demystifies PKI and electronic signatures at ID4Africa 2025
A workshop chaired by World Bank officials Nay Constantine, Tunde Fafunwa and Chris Tullis addressed how electronic signatures enable remote…
